Ok, say I want to back up some directories in /usr and I wanted to exclude the directories below. Is the format that I used below appropriate to exclude the directories and their subdirectories below? I am using gtar.
./X11R6/* ./bin/* ./compat/* ./games/* ./include/* ./lib/* ./libdata/* ./libexec/* ./local/bin/* ./local/include/* ./local/info/* ./local/lib/* ./local/libdata/* ./local/libexec/* ./local/man/* ./local/perl/* ./local/rrdtool-1.0.33/* ./local/sbin/* ./local/sc/* ./local/share/* ./local/src/* ./local/var/* ./obj/* ./ports/* ./sbin/* ./share/* ./src/* ./tmp/* ./home/vpopmail/domains ./home/vpopmail/bin ./home/vpopmail/doc/* ./home/vpopmail/include ./home/vpopmail/lib
